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- the present invention relates to a graded index optical device which can particularly be applied to an optical device such as an optically coupled component for optical communication, a camera, an endoscope or the like, and a method for manufacturing the graded index optical device by a sol-gel process.
- a graded index optical device has received attention, for example, as a lens having a small spherical aberration used when radiant light from a semiconductor laser is made highly efficiently incident on an optical fiber, and also, as a lens for image transmission of a camera or the like since an edge face of the lens is smooth and an optional focal length can be provided by changing the length of a circular cylinder.
- the shape is compact and cylindrical, thus it has been employed as a lens that is easily aligned with an axis of an optical system, easily retained and has high assembly performance. As shown in FIG.
- NA (n 0 2 ⁇ n a 2 ) 1/2 (2).
- NA is the square root of a difference of two squares in the center and on the periphery of the GRIN lens, is referred to as a Numerical Aperture (hereinafter referred to as “NA”), and is an important parameter representing lens performance.
- a lens with a high NA is a lens having high light-condensing performance, and in other words, the lens characteristics are excellent.
- a GRIN lens which has become commercially practical has a NA of about 0.2. Therefore, there is a strong desire to provide a GRIN lens that has a NA ⁇ 0.4 for making the radiant light from the semiconductor laser highly efficiently incident on the optical fiber, and also has a small diameter for miniaturizing an optical device.
- a GRIN lens made by the ion exchange process is multicomponent glass containing an alkali component.
- this GRIN lens can not provide a large NA, and further is poor in reliability because of a problem of heat resistance due to a very large coefficient of thermal expansion of a glass material.
- the vapor phase process obtains a NA of 0.38 on an experimental level (see for example, P. B. O'Connor et al., Electron Lett., 13, (1977) 170-171).
- the sol-gel process is a synthesis method performed at a low temperature, the concentration distribution of a refractive index distribution imparting metal can precisely be formed, thus it is an effective process.
- an alcoholic solution including an alkoxide of silicon as a main component is added to acids or bases as solvents and hydrolysis is performed to make sol.
- a metal component is further added and this sol is further subjected to a polycondensation reaction, thus a crosslinking reaction proceeds to make a wet gel.
- the obtained wet gel is dried, the solvent in the gel is removed, and thereafter, the gel is sintered to thereby make dense glass.
- the GRIN lens When the GRIN lens is made using the sol-gel process, it is necessary to form the concentration distribution on a refractive index distribution imparting a metal component.
- a method using a metal salt as a raw material of a metal component there is known a method using a metal salt as a raw material of a metal component, a molecular stuffing method, and further a method using a metal alkoxide.
- gel added with the metal salt as an aqueous solution or an alcoholic solution during preparation of sol is prepared. The gel is present in a state in which the metal salt is dissolved in a solvent in a pore formed of a skeleton of silicon.
- the obtained gel is immersed in alcohol with a low molecular weight, water, a mixed solution thereof or the like having high solubility to the metal salt, thereby eluting the metal component contained in the gel to form the concentration distribution.
- an appropriate salt of a metal such as Ti, Nb, Ta, Zr or the like which extensively contributes to a refractive index is not present, it was significantly difficult to apply this process to form a GRIN lens having a high NA.
- Japanese Examined Patent Publication No. H5-82332 discloses a method in which a wet gel is dried and sintered to make a porous body, and the porous body is immersed in a Ti containing solution or the like to uniformly impregnate it with a metal component, thus metal containing glass such as SiO 2 —TiO 2 or the like is obtained.
- a dry gel is thermally treated with a high temperature, a bonding hand of Si—O—Si is securely bonded and a reactive Si—OH group becomes few in number, thus only a very few metal components can bond to Si—O—Si, therefore it was difficult to stably make a GRIN lens with a high NA.
- gel is made in which the metal alkoxide as a component for enhancing a refractive index is added to an alkoxide of silicon as an alcoholic solution during preparation of sol. Since the gel using the metal alkoxide forms a bond between silicon and a metallic atom, in order to form a concentration distribution on a metal component, this method cleaves the bond between silicon and the metallic atom, immerses the gel in a concentration distribution imparting solution capable of eluting the metal component, washes an eluted liquid, then fixes the concentration distribution, and carries out washing, drying and sintering.
- a GRIN lens having a high NA can stably be produced.
- this method has been capable of mass-manufacturing a diameter of about 10 mm at a wet gel stage, a diameter of about 5 mm at a dry gel stage, and a diameter of about 2 to 3 mm at a stage sintered into the GRIN lens.
- Patent Document 1 Japanese Examined Patent Publication No. H5-82332
- Non-patent Document 1 P. B. O'Connor et al., Electron Lett., 13, (1977) 170-171
- a GRIN lens base material of SiO 2 —Ta 2 O 5 or SiO 2 —TiO 2 system quartz glass having a large diameter (for example, about 4 to 5 mm in diameter) is made by a sol-gel process using a metal alkoxide, next the base material is inserted into, for example, an electric furnace of a carbon heater and stretched at 1,800 to 2,000° C. to make a small diameter GRIN lenticular optical fiber having a diameter of 1 mm or smaller, and then the fiber is cut into an appropriate length and grinded to make the GRIN lens.
- the base material normally foams and can not be stretched, and thus the small diameter GRIN lenticular optical fiber was unable to be stably produced.
- the present invention relates to a small diameter GRIN lens in which a large diameter GRIN lens base material having a large numerical aperture NA and a refractive index distribution of which is a square curve is made by a sol-gel process, and thereafter, the base material is stretched in a heating furnace such as an electric furnace or the like.
- a heating furnace such as an electric furnace or the like.
- an object of the present invention is to manufacture a GRIN lenticular optical fiber without foaming during stretching.
- the present invention is a method for manufacturing a GRIN lens comprising the steps of: forming a wet gel that has a concentration distribution having a refractive index distribution imparting metal that differs in concentration in a radial direction, drying the wet gel to form a dry gel with a bulk specific gravity ⁇ (g/cm 3 ), sintering the dry gel to form a GRIN lens base material and stretching the GRIN lens base material while heating.
- the method for manufacturing the GRIN lens is characterized in that, in the step of sintering the dry gel, partial pressures of oxygen are 10 ⁇ 1 Pa or lower during sintering at 800° C. or higher, and also during sintering at 1,000 to 1,150° C., the relation between a rate of temperature increase v (° C./hr) and a bulk density ⁇ is defined by v ⁇ 10 5 *EXP ( ⁇ 12 ⁇ ).
- the bulk specific gravity ⁇ of a dry gel denotes a value that divides weight (g) of the dry gel by volume (cm 3 ).
- the present invention is characterized in that, in the above-described step of sintering the dry gel, the sintering at 800° C. or higher is performed in a helium atmosphere, thereby providing partial pressures of oxygen of 10 ⁇ 1 Pa or lower.
- the present invention is also characterized in that the refractive index distribution imparting metal is selected from the group consisting of titanium and tantalum.
- the present invention is also a GRIN lens which is characterized by manufacturing using a manufacturing method as described above.
- a refractive index distribution imparting metal is titanium (Ti) will be described below.
- SiO 2 —TiO 2 quartz glass since cases of other refractive index distribution imparting metals are also similar, only the SiO 2 —TiO 2 quartz glass will be described.
- the cause of foaming by (1) H 2 O is as follows: A hydroxyl group (Si—OH) chemically adsorbed on the surface of a pore of gel is not removed by heating from room temperature to 800° C. in a sintering stage. Further, when the sintering is continued to temperatures in the region of 1,200° C. and a dry gel is vitrified, since a silica dry gel with a relatively large bulk density ( ⁇ 1.1 g/cm 3 ) has low vitrification temperatures (up to 1,000° C.), the vitrification of the dry gel is completed before the —OH group is released to the exterior, thus the —OH group is incorporated into the glass.
- the cause of foaming by O 2 is as follows: A GRIN lens base material containing Ti as a refractive index distribution imparting metal is in a heterogeneous state in which TiO 2 is localized. When this is heated at 1,800 to 2,000° C. and stretched, a decomposition reaction, in which TiO 2 in the base material becomes TiO 2 ⁇ TiO+1 ⁇ 2O 2 occurs, thus O 2 is generated to cause foaming.
- the decomposition reaction expressed by TiO 2 ⁇ TiO+1 ⁇ 2O 2 occurs at about 1,500° C., thus this decomposition reaction does not occur in a stage of sintering a dry gel (about 1,200° C. or lower).
- a bulk density of a dry gel forming the GRIN lens base material is made low and the vitrification temperature thereof is increased, (2) partial pressures of oxygen during sintering at 800° C. or higher are decreased to 10 ⁇ 1 Pa or lower, and (3) a rate of temperature increase during sintering at 1,000 to 1,150° C. is increased as gradually as possible and before gel is vitrified so that an —OH group and O 2 generated by a decomposition reaction are made to release to the exterior.
- a GRIN lens having a large numerical aperture and a small diameter can efficiently and easily be manufactured.
- the GRIN lens of the present invention can provide, for example, a small diameter of 1 mm or smaller, and thus an optical device such as an optical fiber collimater or the like can be miniaturized. Further, when the GRIN lens is deposited on the tip end of an optical fiber, the axis of the GRIN lens and the optical fiber is automatically consistent with each other due to a self-alignment effect caused by the surface tension of molten glass, thus manufacture becomes significantly easy.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a refractive index distribution of a GRIN lens.
- FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating the relation between a rate of temperature increase and a bulk density of a dry gel.
- the wet gel using the metal alkoxide of Ti since Si and Ti atoms form bonds, in order to form a concentration distribution on a Ti component, the bonding between Si and Ti atoms is cleaved, the wet gel is immersed in a concentration distribution imparting liquid (hydrochloric acid aqueous solution) which can elute the Ti component. An eluted liquid in the wet gel is washed and removed, and thereafter drying is carried out to make a dry gel, and the dry gel is sintered and vitrified.
- a concentration distribution imparting liquid hydroochloric acid aqueous solution
- the wet gel is immersed in the concentration distribution impairing liquid (hydrochloric acid aqueous solution), the bonding between Si and Ti atoms is cleaved, and the Ti component is eluted.
- a bulk density of the dry gel in which the Ti component is eluted, and washing and drying are carried out, is different by a Ti concentration and an elution condition of the Ti component.
- the dry gel is made under various elution conditions and a result of measuring the bulk density thereof is shown in Table 1. Sample numbers 1 and 6 are not immersed in the hydrochloric acid aqueous solution, and more specifically, these are solid glass without forming the GRIN lens.
- Sample numbers 3 and 9 are the GRIN lens immersed in hydrochloric acid for a predetermined time, then washed and repeatedly immersed in hydrochloric acid a plurality of times for a predetermined time.
- a principle to be used is to cleave the bonding relation between the Ti component in a wet gel skeleton and a Si skeleton, and to make elution for providing the concentration distribution on the Ti component, and thus on the periphery of the wet gel, a cleavage reaction of a skeleton structure proceeds by acid immersion for a long time, and the skeleton of the wet gel suffers considerable damage.
- the condition (1) which is a first condition among three conditions for preventing foaming, is to reduce the bulk density of the dry gel that forms the GRIN lens base material.
- the bulk density can be reduced to about 0.65 g/cm 3 by controlling the concentration of Ti, the concentration of hydrochloric acid, the immersion time and the number of immersion times.
- a decision on which to select as a preferable condition is made by a concentration distribution form (close to square distribution form) of the bulk density of the dry gel and the Ti component of the GRIN lens base material.
- condition (2) which is a second condition among three conditions, is to reduce partial pressures of oxygen of ⁇ 10 ⁇ 1 Pa. This can easily be achieved by sufficiently filling an atmosphere in a sintering furnace with a He gas and reducing the partial pressures of oxygen during sintering of the dry gel at 800° C. or higher.
- the He gas can release an oxygen gas generated by a decomposition reaction of TiO 2 from the dry gel or glass in a short time during the course of the process of vitrifying the dry gel, and hence the He gas is most preferable.
- the dry gel having various bulk densities was heated at a rate of temperature increase of 100° C./hr. in an O 2 atmosphere to remove a hydrocarbon compound in the dry gel at temperatures up to from room temperature to 800° C., and thereafter, at temperatures up to 800 to 1,200° C., the O 2 atmosphere is replaced with a He atmosphere to set the partial pressures of oxygen at 10 ⁇ 1 Pa or lower, and the rate of temperature increase was changed to perform sintering and vitrification. Then, the sintered glass is heated to a high temperature of 2,000° C. at which the sintered glass can be stretched, and whether foaming or not was verified. The result thereof is shown in FIG. 2 .
- a white circle, a black circle or the like represents the level of foaming when the sintered glass is heated to a stretchable temperature of 2,000° C., and an increase in the black coated part shows that foaming appears frequently.
- FIG. 2 As the rate of temperature increase becomes faster, the foaming appears more frequent, and also as the bulk density becomes smaller, the foaming is suppressed, thus it was found that with respect to foaming, a mutual relation is present between the rate of temperature increase and the bulk density of the dry gel. That is, if sintering is performed in the triangular shaped area shown in FIG. 2 , foaming does not appear at all and stretching can stably be performed.
- This triangularly shaped area can approximately be expressed by an equation (3).
- v is a rate of temperature increase (° C./hr.) and ⁇ is a bulk density (g/cm 3 ).
- v ⁇ 10 5 *EXP( ⁇ 12 ⁇ ) (3) Note that, in this experiment, at temperatures up to 800 to 1,200° C., the rate of temperature increase was fixed. However, an important temperature area is 1,000 to 1,150° C., hence in a temperature area other than thereof, the temperature may be increased at about 40° C./hr.
- a refractive index distribution imparting metal selected from the group consisting of Ti (titanium), Ta (tantalum), Sb (antimony) and Zr (zirconium) is preferable, since a NA can be made high and also a coefficient of thermal expansion is close to quartz glass of an optical fiber. More preferable metals are Ti and Ta which can stably make and sinter the wet gel and the dry gel.
- TMOS tetramethoxysilane
- DMF dimethylformamide
- 0.056 N hydrochloric acid 7.76 g
- 25.53 g of titanium tetrabutoxide was combined with 39.74 g of ethanol and 18.27 g of DMF was dripped and mixed while agitating.
- the solution was dripped with 28.37 g of distilled water (water) and 24.76 g of ethanol, and mixed to make a sol liquid.
- This sol liquid was poured in a test tube having an inner diameter of 14 mm, sealed with aluminum foil, then placed in a thermostatic chamber at 60° C.
- the temperature was increased at 100° C./hr in an oxygen atmosphere, then the temperature was kept at 450° C. for 2 hours in the oxygen atmosphere, and at temperatures of 450 to 800° C., the temperature was increased at 20° C./hr in the oxygen atmosphere.
- the temperature was increased at temperatures of 800 to 1,000° C.
- the temperature was increased at 10° C./hr in a helium atmosphere, and at temperatures of 1,000 to 1,150° C., the temperature was increased at 5° C./hr in the helium atmosphere.
- a gas exhaust part of a sintering furnace was sealed, a hole with a diameter of about 10 mm was open, and partial pressures of oxygen were held at ⁇ 10 ⁇ 1 Pa. Thereafter, the temperature was increased to 1,200° C., sintering was performed, and a transparent and cylindrical (4.2 mm in diameter) GRIN lens base material was obtained.
- this base material As a result of spinning (stretching) this base material into a GRIN lenticular optical fiber having an outer diameter of 150 ⁇ m while inserting into an electric furnace of a carbon heater at 0.004 mm/s, a non-foaming and stable GRIN lenticular optical fiber was obtained.
- a GRIN lens As a result of cutting this GRIN lenticular optical fiber into a length of 350 ⁇ m and grinding, a GRIN lens was obtained having the function of a convex lens with a focal length of 164 ⁇ m and a small diameter.
- a rate of temperature increase v is 5° C./hr at 1,000 to 1,150° C. and 10 5 *EXP ( ⁇ 12 ⁇ ) is 15.69, thus the relation given by v ⁇ 10 5 *EXP ( ⁇ 12 ⁇ ) is satisfied.
- the dry gel had a bulk density of 0.85 g/cm 3 .
- a rate of temperature increase v is 5 (° C./hr.) at 1,000 to 1,150° C. and 10 5 *EXP ( ⁇ 12 ⁇ ) is 3.72, thus the relation given by v ⁇ 10 5 *EXP ( ⁇ 12 ⁇ ) is not satisfied.
- TMOS tetramethoxysilane
- DMF dimethylformamide
- 0.056 N hydrochloric acid 7.76 g
- 41.0 g of tantalum ethoxide added with 39.74 g of ethanol and 18.27 of DMF was dripped and mixed while agitating.
- the solution was dripped with 28.37 g of distilled water (water) and 24.76 g of ethanol, and mixed to make a sol liquid.
- This sol liquid was poured in a test tube having an inner diameter of 14 mm, sealed with aluminum foil, then placed in a thermostatic chamber at 60° C. for 5 days, and aged.
- the gel completing the aging process was immersed in a 0.1% hydrofluoric acid aqueous solution for 6 hours to form a concentration distribution on a Ti component, then immersed in water for 24 hours and washed, and further immersed in ethanol for 24 hours and washed.
- the gel completing the washing process was removed, placed in the thermostatic chamber at 60° C. for 5 days and in the thermostatic chamber at 120° C. for 5 days, and dried.
- a bulk density of the dried gel was 0.80 g/cm 3 , and was relatively small. This dry gel was placed on a quartz tube divided in half and inserted into a sintering furnace.
- the temperature was increased at 100° C./hr in an oxygen atmosphere, then the temperature was maintained at 450° C. for 2 hours in the oxygen atmosphere, and at temperatures of 450 to 800° C., the temperature was increased at 20° C./hr in the oxygen atmosphere.
- the temperature was increased at temperatures of 800 to 1,000° C.
- the temperature was increased at 10° C./hr in a helium atmosphere, and at temperatures of 1,000 to 1,150° C., the temperature was increased at 5° C./hr in the helium atmosphere.
- a gas exhaust part of a sintering furnace was sealed, a hole with a diameter of about 10 mm was open, and partial pressures of oxygen were held at ⁇ 10 ⁇ 1 Pa. Thereafter, the temperature was increased to 1,200° C., sintering was performed, and a transparent and cylindrical (4.2 mm in diameter) GRIN lens base material was obtained.
- a rate of temperature increase v is 5° C./hr at 1,000 to 1,150° C. and 10 5 *EXP ( ⁇ 12 ⁇ ) is 6.77, thus the relation given by v ⁇ 10 5 *EXP ( ⁇ 12 ⁇ ) is satisfied.
- a wet gel similarly made to that in Example 2 was immersed in 0.1% hydrofluoric acid aqueous solution for 2 hours, thereafter immersed in water for 24 hours and in ethanol for 24 hours, and washed.
- the gel completing the washing process was removed, placed in a thermostatic chamber at 60° C. for 5 days and in the thermostatic chamber at 120° C. for 5 days, and dried.
- the dried dry gel had a bulk density of 0.95 g/cm 3 .
- the GRIN lens in the present invention can be utilized as an optical fiber coupling part, a collimater or the like by depositing it on the tip end of an optical fiber.
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n=n 0(1−g 2 r 2/2) (1)
where g is a constant representing light-condensing performance of the GRIN lens, n0 is a refractive index of a GRIN lens material, and r is a radial direction given by r2=x2+y2.
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Concentration of Si | Concentration of Ti | Hydrochloric Acid Solution | Hydrochloric Acid | Bulk Density | |
Sample No. | mol % | mol % | N | hr | g/cm3 |
1 | 85 | 15 | 0 | 1.00 | |
2 | 85 | 15 | 1.5 | 6 | 0.75 |
3 | 85 | 15 | 1.5 | 4 | 0.70 |
1.5 | 4 | ||||
4 | 85 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 0.70 |
5 | 85 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 0.65 |
6 | 80 | 20 | 0 | 1.25 | |
7 | 80 | 20 | 1.5 | 6 | 1.13 |
8 | 80 | 20 | 1.5 | 12 | 1.05 |
9 | 80 | 20 | 1.5 | 4.5 | 0.84 |
1.5 | 3 | ||||
1.5 | 3 | ||||
v≦105*EXP(−12ρ) (3)
Note that, in this experiment, at temperatures up to 800 to 1,200° C., the rate of temperature increase was fixed. However, an important temperature area is 1,000 to 1,150° C., hence in a temperature area other than thereof, the temperature may be increased at about 40° C./hr.
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